Divinity II: Developer's Cut

Where do I begin with this one? If I'm being honest, it wasn't a bad game. It unfortunately more than anything suffers from extreme poor performance in 2026. If it was just the constant crashing that led you to spamming the quicksave button whenever going through a door in fear of losing progress, I would be annoyed, but not mind THAT much. But I had to download a fan patch for the game to even make it playable to begin with due to severe screen tearing and jittering issues. Took about 2 hours of troubleshooting to even bring the game to a playable state. As for the story, it is extremely bare bones, but Larian puts a lot of love into their dialogue and it is the biggest saving grace of the entire game for me. It kept me engaged and made me WANT to do side quests. Which is a good thing considering you have to do side quests if you really want anything of substance out of the game. I can't even begin to imagine how short the game would be if you just sped through it only doing the main quest. The combat is my least favorite thing about the game. I can't speak for other classes, but I went ranged for the whole game and I went from being pretty weak and chipping away at enemy health, to quickly becoming so strong that I actually one shot the final boss with a single spread arrow attack. Combat is a slogfest. Other reviews have explained it more in detail than I'm going to, but there's essentially two types of enemies: melee attackers and oh my god stay behind a wall and dont let them see you. If an enemy archer even gets a whiff of you for more than one microsecond, you will have poison, stun, and blast arrows coming right at you which are undodgable if you dont INSTANTLY duck behind a wall or some kind of environmental cover. The negation stats dont work and you will continue to be plagued by them for the majority of the game. But it's just those two. Mages are pretty much ignorable as long as you just keep moving. No matter what enemy type you are fighting in game, it's all the same exact attacks. Nothing is unqiue, not even bosses. Not even the final boss. I couldn't believe how boring combat was. Also they just spam enemies EVERYWHERE. In the FOV areas, it's just clusters of densely packed enemies everywhere the second you enter a hostile area. Very unfun. The dragon stuff, while also very boring, still somehow managed to be more engaging to me even if it was just destroying stationary targets and occasionally shooting a fireball at a tiny fast moving thing. I enjoyed flying around the maps and exploring. Easily the highlight of the game for me. The Orobas Fjords were densely packed with tons of content and stuff to do. Though once the novelty of the dragon mode wears off, you start realizing just how janky and annoying it is when you constantly have to struggle to find a place to transform and take off. All in all, I did enjoy the game. I only can't recommend it because I know most people aren't as bullheaded about this stuff as I am. I enjoy the Divinity games for the lore, and Divinity II definitely doesn't skimp out in that regard. I've been playing them in order of release starting with Divine Divinity and then Beyond Divinity before this. I can say with every fiber of my being that this game is leaps and bounds better than Beyond Divinity, but nowhere near the peak that was Divine Divinity. I have heard many good things about the Original Sin games, so I look forward to finally going into them from here. To wrap up/TL;DR: The game is a performace nightmare with mediocre combat and boring enemies that is fun to explore and to learn more about the world while slogging through dungeon after dungeon of the same thing over and over again.

I love playing a game from 2012 that you pray to god doesn't crash when you try and start it!

Игра похожа на мыльный и неприглядный кусок го..а, как и всякая игра от Лариан. Играть я в это долго не стал -- уж больно отталкивающая картинка. Почитал отзывы: даже положительные замечают проблемы с миликами и в особенности с двуручниками -- это нонсенс для такого рода игры. Я также имею личную неприязнь к компании Лариан, и потому не упущу возможность поставить диз.

хорошо состарившийся диаблоид, чут чут терпишь - чут чут играешь

Last time I played this game I didn't find it so frustrating. That was over a decade ago. The combat is atrocious and all encounters are separated into 2 categories: enemy group has archers and enemy group doesn't have archers. Archers are the bane of your existence should you pop up in their line of sight at max distance for half a second - you already will have HEATSEEKING poison and stun arrows fly into your face, occasionally even ignoring obstacles and terrain. Meanwhile on higher difficulties fight without archers boils down to jumping around like a monkey to avoid the projectile spam from enemies or finding a place to cheese them. Both of which are totally boring and tedious to sit through. And also test your patience like no other things. The game also requires technical patches to actually function on newer hardware without slideshow/stuttering and crashing every time you alt-tab. The exploration is the only strong suit of this game: this is what all those "open world gacha games" stole ideas from and dumbed them down. A lot of secrets which are entirely missable, or even with hints from in-game mechanics not as obvious how to get to. Story is alright, but it's very, very focused on one thing: PC confronting Damien. All sidequests always feel too short to really start getting places outside of the main story. Very little of those last for more than requiring 2 actions from you, and then end. I cannot give it a recommendation no matter how much I enjoyed it back in the 2010s. It just aged extremely poorly and even the very first game in the series "Divine Divinity" holds up better. If you can't handle its old graphical style I recommend starting with D:OS, as it is the best game in the series.

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CHILDHOOD GAME

Hab das Spiel jetzt zum zweiten Mal durchgespielt. Wirklich ein schönes Fantasy-RPG mit vielen kleinen Geschichten, in die man eintauchen kann, mit tollen, teilweise schrägen Charakteren, einer guten Balance zwischen Story, Erkundung, Kampf und Rätseln und nicht zuletzt dem Gimmick, sich in einen feuerspeienden Drachen verwandeln zu können <3 Wobei ich gerade die Erweiterung Flames of Vengeance, in der das Spiel zu seinem Story-Ende gebracht wird und das den gleichen Umfang hat wie das Basis-Spiel, trotz der dort fehlenden Drachen-Fähigkeit noch um ein gutes Stück gelungener halte: Die detaillierte und liebevolle Gestaltung der Stadt, die Erschließung neuer Bereiche, der Spannungsbogen und der Rhythmus bei der Entfaltung der Story sind ohne die Weitläufigkeit im Basis-Spiel noch ein bisschen immersiver. Man freut sich beim Spielen einfach über die viele Liebe und den Witz, den die Entwickler in die Quests und die Charaktere gesteckt haben. Ein wirkliches Schmuckstück.